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Mt. Vernon Republican (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1854), 1863-01-01

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Ill IPmi mm gifiWtom VTOL IX. MOUNT VERNON, OHIO THURSDAY, JANUARY 1 1863. NO 9 THE MOUNT VERNON REPUBLICAN. T E 11 M S : Tor one year (invariably in advance)82,00 For tix months, 1,00 TKRMfl OF ADVKHTIS1NO. ( )ne square, 3 weeks, 1 ,00 One square, 3 months, 3,00 ( )ue square, (3 months, 4,50 )ne square, 1 year, 0,00 '.)ne siiare (changeable monthly) 10,00 unainzeabie week v. j.i.uu Two squares, 8 weeks, Two squares, 6 weeks, Two square!), 3 months, Two squares, li months, Two squares, 1 year, Three squares, is weeks, Three squares, G weeks, Three squares, 3 months, Three squares, 6 months, ' 1,75 3,25 5,25 0,75 8,00 2.50 4,50 0,00 8.00 10.00 1 hrcc squares, 1 year, One-fourth column, chan. nuarterly, 15,00 Ono-third " " " 22,00 One-half " " . " 28,00 Ono column, changeable quarterly, 50,00 All local notices of advertisements, or calling attention to any enterprise intended to benefit individuals or corporations, will Ijc charged at the rate often cents per line. CARRIER'S ADDRESS. TO THE PATRONS OF THE REPUBLICAN. Mt. Vernon, O., January 1st, 1863. Kind fi lends and patrons list I pray, To what the Carrier Boy may say, Though bleak the wintry winds, and cold, To you my message I'll unfold. Old Sixty-two with frosted beard, Has made his exit duly mourned, While Sixty-three, the infant torn, "We hail upon this New Year morn: Events have crowded thick and fast, Change upon change, has swiftly passed, There's many a home where grief is known, The loved and beautiful have gone. Our country we had thought to free, "Ero this from Southern tyranny, But traitor hirelings held the reins, And thousands of our brave wcro slain. On battle plains the crimson tide, . In streamlots flowed, while.side by side, The friend and foaman mingled there, While din of battle rent the air. Roanoke can tell how Northmen fight, At Donaldson they rose in might, While Pea Ridge victory, too, can tell, How Mcintosh and McCullough fell. True, wo may not have crushed the foe, Still victories with our armies go, They only want truo honest men To lead, then peace shall smile again. Not Fremont with his grasping aims, McClcllan with his tardy plans, Cheering our minds whilo on the rack, With quiet on the Potomac. Tlireo cheers for Buruside chieftain brave, Proudly wo let our ensign wave, For Burnside leads our armies forth, The noble army of the North. With Union men to steer our bark, ' It cannot founder in the dark, Our ship will soon outride tho gale, Not one of all our stars shall pale. Long ero this new-born year expires, Rebellion with its lurid fires Shall ceaso to burn on Southern soil, Our armies soon their plans will spoil. Old Jeff will have to take leg bail, Or that Great Man who mauls tho rail, Will make a necklace fitting tight, Of Northern hemp to set him right. May Wheatland's traitor feel tho smart, He's wrung from many a widow's'heart, His name a curse shall ever be, Te all of our posterity. Knox county looks with honest pride, On the success flio Fourth has made; The daring deeds its men have done, Tho honor they've so nobly won. ; Banning now wears the Colonel's badge, We honor him and froely pledge, Those men who first camo forth and gave, Their lives, their countries right to save. And where are they that gallant band, One year ago we clasped their hand, Of truer, braver, none have heard, Than formed Ohio's Forty-Third. Aye, where are they? ne coward's name, Has dimmed the lustre of their fame, On well fought fields their valor shone, Their motto, "We're a host in one." A tear for Smith, the patriot brave, Xkay'vo borne him to a hero's grave, Not trumpet sounds or thunders deep, Shall wake him from his dreamless sleep. Cod bless the Ninety-Sixth so true, They've buckled on their armor too, Ohio boys aro true as steel, Will fight or die, but never yield. Lincoln bus risen in his strength, In our fair lund, through all its length, The glorious news shall wafted be, The bonds are loose, the slave is free. The Democrats feel mighty well, Yet what its for I cannot tell, We hear them shouting, every man, For glorious great Vallandigham. We list as they hiccoughing say, "We'll show them what's Dcmecracy," We laugh, for surely all must know,; They'll meet a sudden overthrow. How have they gained the power, you ask, Ah, that's the question, still no task To solve; while Union men the rebels smote, Tho Democrats stayed home to vote. They say our bread and butter's gone, Our party to the winds has flown, We'll show them next election day Who'll danco and who the piper pay. Our merchant's f.it and saucy are, With stores well filled with customers, Its do buy this a beauty buy it, Too dear ah no there's cotton in it. Our farmers too, the joke is good, Fancy there's cotton in their wood, In leather too its lately found, In butter surely it abounds. Our ladies, bless them, everywhere, They're toasted for their beauty rare, They dross with taste, and oh, my eyes, Wear bonnets towering to the skies. Patrons and friends accept this lay, For it you but a trifle pay, With my best bow and thanks sincere, I wish you a happy New Year. IDLE HANDS. BY T. 8. ARTHUR. Mr. Thornton came home at his usual mid-day hour, and as he went by the parlor door, he saw his daughter, a young girl of nineteen, lounging on the sofa with a book in her hands. The whirl of hiswifo's sewing machine struck on his cars at the same time. Without pausing at the parlor door he kept on to the room from which came the sound of industry. Mrs. Thornton did not observe the en trance of her husband. She was bending close down over her work, and tho noise of her machine was louder than the footsteps on the floor. Mr. Thornton stood looking at her some moments without speaking. "O dear!" exclaimed the tired woman letting her foot rest on tho treadle, and straightening herself up, "this pain in my side is almost beyond endurance." "Then why do you sit knitting yourself there?" Baid Mr. Thornton. Mr. Thornton's aspect was unusually obcr. "What's tho matter? Why do you look so serious?" asked his wife. "Because I feel serious.' "Has anything gone wrong?" Mrs Thornton's countenance grew slightly troubled. Thiugs had gone wrong in his business more than once, and she had lcarnod to dread the occurrence of disaster. "Things are wrong all the time," was replied in some impatience. "In your business?" Mrs. Thornton spoke a little faintly. "No, nothing especially out of the way there, but all wrong at home." "I don't understand you Harvey. What is wrong at home, pray.' "Wrong for you to sit in pain and cx- haustion over the sewing machine, while an idle daughter lounges over a novel in the parlor. That's what I wished to say." "It isu't Effie's fault. She often asks to help me, but I can't see tho child put down to.household drudgery. Her time will come soon enough. Let her have a little more ease and comfort while she may. "If we said that of our sons," rcpliod Mr. Thornton, "and acted on the word, what efficient men they would make for the world's work! How admirably furnished they would be for life's trials and duties! You are wrong in this all wrong," continued the husband. "And as to ease and comfort as you say, if Eflieis a rightmind-cd girl sho will havo more true enjoyment in tho consciousness that sho is possible to lightening her mother's burdens than it is possible to obtainjfrora the finest novel ever written. Excitement of the imagination is no substitute for that deep peace of mind that ever accompanicsand succeeds the right discharge of daily duties. It is a poor compliment to Effie's moral sense to suppose that she can bo content to sit with idle hands, or to employ them in light frivolities, while her mother is worn down with toil beyond her strength. Hester, this must not be.' "And it shall not bel" said ft quick firm voice. Mr. Thorn ten and his wife started, and turned round to the speaker, who had entered the room unobserved, and had been a listener to nearly all the conversation we have just recorded. "It shall not be father!" And Effie came and stood by Mr. Thornton. Her face was crimson; her eyes flooded with tears, through which light was flashing- her form drawn up erectly; her maimer resolute. "It isn't all my fault," she said as she laid her hand on her fath'er't arm. "I've asked mother a great many times to let me help her, but sho always puts me off, an says that it is easier to do a thing horse than to show another. May be I am littl dull. But every , ouo has to learn, y know. Mother didn t get her hand fairly with that sewing machine for tw or thrco weeks, and I'm certain it wouldn't take me any longer. If she'll only teach me how to use it, I could help her a great deal. And indeed, father, I am willing." "Spoken in the right spirit my daugh ter," said Mr. Thornton approvingly. 'Girls should be usefully employed as well as boys, and in the very things most like ly to be required of them when they be come women, in the responsible position of wives and mothers. Depend upon it Effie, an idle girlhood is not the way to a cheer ful womanhood. Learn and do tho very things that will bo requiredof you in after years, and then you will have an ac. quired facility. Habit and skill will make easy what might come hard and be felt very burdensome.' "And vou would have her abandon all self-improvement," said Mrs. Thornton. 'Give up music, reading, society "There are," replied Mr. Thornton as his wife paused for another word, "some fifteen or sixteen hours in the day in which mind or hands should bo rightly employ ed. Now let us sco how Eflio is spending these long and ever recurring periods of time. The record of a day will help us to go toward the result wo aro now searching for." Effie sat down, and ho drew a chair in front of his wife and daughter. "Take yesterday for instance, said her father', "how was it spent? You rose at seven I think?" "Yes, sir, I came down just as the break fast bell rang." "How was it after breakfast llow was the morning spent?" "I practiced on the piano an hour alter breakfast." "So far so good. What then?" "I read "Tho Cavalier" until eleven o'clock." Mr. Thornton then shook his head and asked, "After eleven, how was the rest of the day spent?" "I dressed myself and went out." "At what time did you go out?" "At twelvo o'clock," "An hour was spent in dressing?" "Yes sir." "Where did you go?" "I called for Helen Boyd and wo took a walk." "And came home just in time for dinner, I think I met you at the door?" "Yes, sir.' "How was it after dinner?" "I slept from threo to five, took a bath and dressed myself. From six until tea-time I sat at the parlor window." "And after tea?" "Read 'The Cavalier' till I went to bed." "And what hour?" "Eleven o'clock." "Now we can make up the account,'' said Mr. Thornton. "You rose at seven and retire at eleven. Sixteen hours. And from your own account of tho day but a sinele hour was spent in anything useful this was at the piano. Now your mother was up at half-past five, and went to bed, from sheer inability to set at her work longer, at half-past nine. Sixteen hours also. How much reading did you do in that time?" And Mr. Thornton looked at his wife. "Reading! Don't talk to me of reading I'vo no time to read." Mrs. Thornton answered a little imp;v- tlontlv. Tho contrast of her daughter's j. idle with her own lifeof exhausting toil did n ot affect her very pleasantly. "And yet, said Mr. Thorton, "you wcro vorv fond of reading, and I can remember when not a day passed without an hour or two of reading. Did you not lie down alter dinner?" "Of course not!" "Nor take a pleasant walk? Nor sit in the parlor with Effie? How about that?" There was no reply. "Now the case is a very plain one," continued Mr. Thornton. "In fact, nothing could be ulainer. You spend from fourteen 1 to sixteen hours daily iu hard work, while Effie. takine yesterday as a sample spenus the same time iu what is little better than idleness. Suppose a new adjustment were to take place, and Effie were to bo usefully 4 , employed in helping you for eight hours of each day, she would still Lavo eigut hours for self-improvemeut and recreation, and you might get back a portion of your health of which those too heavy household duties have robbed you." 'Father," said Ellie, speaking through tears that were falling over her face, "I never saw things before in this light. Why haven't you talked to me before? I have often felt as if I'd like to help mother, but she never gives me anything to do, and if I offer to help her sho says, 'you can't do it' or 'I'd rather do it myself,' Indued it isn't all my fault." "It may not have been in the past Eflio," replied Mr. Thornton, "but it cer tainly will be in the future, unless there is a new arrangement of things. It is false social sentiment that lets daughters become idlers, while mothers, fathers and sons take up the daily burden of work and bear it through all tho busy hours." Mrs. Thornton did not readily come in to tho new order of things proposed by her husband and accepted by Effie. False pride in her daughter, that future lady ideal, and an inclination to do herself rather than to teach another, were all so many impediments. But Effie and her father were both in earnest, and it was not long before the overtasked mother's face began to lose its looks of weariness, and the languid frame to come up to an erector bearing. Sho could find time for the old pleasure in books, now and then, for a healthy walk in tho street, and a call on sonic valued friends. And was Effie the worse for tho change? Did tho burden she was sharing with her mother depress her shoulders and take the lightness from her step? Not so. The langor engendered by idleness, which had begun to show itself, disappeared in a few weeks. The color camo warmer into her cbeeks, her eyesgainod iu brightess. Sho was g"owing in fact more beautiful, for a mind cheerfully conscious of duty was molding every lineament of'hcr countenance into a now expression. Did self-improvement stop? O no! From ouo to two hours wore given to close practice at the piano every day. Her mind becoming vigorous in toue, instead of enervated by idleness, chose a better order of reading than had been indulged in before, and she was growing toward a thoughtful, cultivated, intelligent womanhood. She also found time amid hcrliomc duties for an hour twice a week with a German teacher, and she began also to cultivate a natural taste for drawing. Now that she was employing her hours usefully, it seemed wonderful how much time she found at her disposal for useful work. How cheerful and companionable she grew! Sho did not seem like Eflio Thornton of a few months before. In fact the sphere of tho entire household was changed. As an idler, Effie had been a burden to all the rest, and the weight of that bur den had boon sufficient to depress, through weariness, the spirits of all. But now that she standing up self-sustained, a sharer in the burdens of each, all hearts camo hack to a lighter measure, beating rhyth mically and in conscious enjoyment. Business Rules. The sad reverses of the past fivo years, have been an experience which should bo valuable to all business men. Fortunes which have been years in accumulating, havo suddenly disappeared. Thousands who once thought themselves strong, never to be broken, have been shivered to atoms and are left penniless. They , must now begin again. Many have passed the prime of life. The step is less clastic, their brain less activo, and they will hereafter work with an abiding conciousness that they cannot plan and execute as in days gone by. We never see such late new beginners without real sympathy and a desire to give them an encouraging word and a helping baud. But in this writina we hav e to do. not with tho unfortunate or these who arc reconstructing their temporal affairs, but with the young'and prosperous, aud those who have weathered all storms and are yet sailing smoothly. Most men, when they start in business, make good resolutions. At any rate, they mean to succeed. They expect to avoid the dangers which have ruined others. For a while all goes on well, but the day comes at length when they are swept away and all their brilliant earthly prospects arc gone forever. According to an old maxim, it is never too late to learn. Business men however, do not believe this. Every one thinks that he has perfected himself in knowledge, that he needs no help or advice from any quarter and that if others have failed of success, that is no reason why he should follow in the same track. When man decides to build a house, he adopta a plan and adheres to it to the end. When a navigator attempts a voyage, ho cousults his charts, and governs himself by the experience of others. When one is sick fir his life endangered by com ing ill contact with disease; he seeks advice from a skillful physician. There are certain rules, forms and precedents which govern and influence most men in all mutters except tho conduct of a mercantile business. Here they mean to be orijinnl. They don't want the advice of anybody. Just here we desire to speak. We wish to propose to such men the following rules for their practical consideration. 1st. Do not undertake a business with which you are not perfectly acquainted my sooner than you would attempt, if blind, to survey a city. First thoroughly understand what you propose to do. Serve an appentieesh'p do anything before tak ing a single step involving risk. 2d. Never attempt a business for which you have no taste or tact.' Seek to do that for which you have a natural. faculty and relish. Don't aspire to be a merchant, when you should be 3 farmer, a mechauie, or a day-laborer. 3d. Never connect yourself in a part nership with those in whom you have not perfect confidence with those to whom vou would not be willing, sick or well, at home or abroad, living or dead, to entrust all your business affairs. 4th. Never attempt to do more business than you can safely do on your capital, 5th. Avoid taking tho extraordinary risks of long credit, no matter what profits arc in prospect. 0th. Give no credit whatever to any one who does not possess a good moral character.7th. Supervise, carefu lly, your own bu siness, (not your neighbor's,) and look af ter your clerks and see that they are faith . ful in the performance of all their duties. 7th. Let all those with whom you have dealing or intercourse, understand, distinctly, that you will lend yourself, for the sake of trade, to do any mean thing anything, which your conscience will not approve of. 9th. Novor lend your name by endorsement or otherwise, except under most ex traordinary circumstances, and then let the act be guarded with every possible security. 10th. Never allow yourself, or your partner, to draw a dollar from the concern, to invest in any "outside operation" what, ever. 11th. In forming a co-partnership, insist that a limited, fixed sum only shall bo drawn by each partner, for personal expenses.12th. Under no pretense whatever deal in stocks. Don't believe any ono of tho thousand marvelous tales of a fortuno in that direction. They area trap and a lie. 13th. Keep all your accumulated profits in your business, so long as you owe a dollar. When you have more capital thau you can use, then it will be proper to invest it outside. 14th. Never borrow from banks or other sources, if it can be avoided. If temporary assistance is necessary, seek it from a tried friend or from a sound banking in stitution and then return the loan on the day fixed, with the most rigid punctuality 14th. Have an eye to the condition of tho country, its crops, and tho general prospects for business and look out sharp for the movements of politicians, who, in nine cases out often, care more for re election than for our commercial interest or our national prosperity. There are other and most important matters which should not be forgotten Keep good company. Valuo 'integrity more than money. Live within your means Eschew wine, theaters, and fast, horses. Use no profane language. Never quar. rcl with a partner. Be kind, Considerate, and generous to clerks; and also to your unfortunate debtors. Cultivate the friendship of all. Do your proper share in promoting the public weal. Be a man, b gentleman, and a christian, and you will make sure of an inheritance in this life and of untold riches in the lite which is to come. -Maryland Views Growth of the Emancipation Movement. (Correnpontlenoo oftba Evening Pot.) Baltimore, December 16, 1802. The "Old War-Horse," as ex-Governor Hicks is familiarly styled, has got upon the right track at last. The war has open ed his eyes. In the presence of a num ber of gentlemen he recently declared that, "he was now convinced there never would be any peace for this country until slavery was abolished throughout the lanos and to this end he supported President Lincoln's proclamation and plan of compensated emancipation heart and hand." The declaration was published in the Cambridge (Dorset) Intelligencer, and the ex-Governor has stood up to it like a man. I do not prufess to give the precise words, bat the? convey the sutstance of j the declaration. This definition of his position will en sure his election to Congrcw from the First district, for there is no withstanding his popularity when ou the right fide. I be lieve I have already writeu you that nearly all the principle citizens of Dorset are in favor of emancipation, and the good work is rapidly spreading. The friends of emancipation now consider two districts a certain to return emancipationists llolli- ilay Hicki and Winter Davis and we do not despair of carrying the other three districts in the same cause. TIM-. CONFISCATION ACT. Mr. William Price, the United States District Attorney for Maryland has drawn up, at the request ofthe Attorney-General, a complete form of proceedings under' the Confiscation act, from the inception of the cause down to the final decree, and is prepared to maintain the constitutionality of the act, after a careful examination thereof. There will tio Home warm work, under this act, in our state, for Maryland has :i largo number of property-holders in the rebel army. Chief Justice Taney will hardly hear any of the causes under it, as his health and strength are failing fast. A TEST. Tho conflict at Fredericksburg has re vealed certain men's hearts hereabouts in a strange manner. Hundreds of people professing to be warm Union men are found actually hoping for and wishing Burnside's defeat; and the reason is, their McClellanism! But deeper down than their prejudice in favor of MeClellan is their love for slavery, and this is tho test that has unveiled their secret thoughts; so it is very natural, after all, to find the dom inant passion rising to the top, whether in secessionists or Unionists, where the be loved wrong of slavery is touched. I.ISTEX TO THIS. Here is an extract from a leading article in the Cumberland (Md) Intelligencer, of the 1 1 tli instant, in which the editor disposes effectually of the question, What is to be done with the negroes when emancipated? Will you publish it, toruliove the anxiety of the white negro-haters ofthe North? We do not want to lose our ne groes. All we want is to get tliem lren, and we'll take care ofthe rest. They can livo with us as slave, and they can do so as free: "From the above extract it nppears that the President's policy is to solve the great problem of emancipation in the South, in a manner that we had not supposed. We have been accustomed to connect coloniza tion with emancipation. The policy of some politicians seems to be to get the ne gro out of the country. The experience of every day proves the folly of such a course. The country can't afford to lose the labor of the negroes. If their condition should be changed from slavery to freedom, their masters would not suffer them to depart. The planters of the whole South, like those of Arkansas and Tennessee, would arrange to give them profitable employment. Nature and Providence arc wiser than tho politicians. The self-interest of mankind is stronger than their prejudice The practical needs of the human race are of greater importance than the speculations of political economists. The emancipated blacks will havo to remain where they are and all scheme of forcible colonization will come to naught. The object of the eman cipation policy will havo been attained when the rebels havo been deprived ofthe labor of, and their properly in the slaves Beyond this, all questions pertaining to their future, and our future, must be reg ulated by tho laws of labor and the de mands of commerce. Meanwhile, let the policy which rips out the vitals of the re bcllion be pushed vigorously on." Sorrow is ever present, though tho sem blance be beautiful at times, as the moon smiling amid the darkness. Even in our most joyful moments there is the conscious ness of a shadow upon the soul, and not amid the wild sublimity of the mountains, nor in the quietness of home, is the pros-encc wholly gone. Beauty is linked with and a sister of sadness, as the Savior is linked with the thought of a crown of thorns aud wounds iu his side, and though we live in the sunlight of gladness with the forms of beautiful things upon every side, yet shall gleam from out of every landscape a ehadow, from out of every rose or thorn. In the midst of the most mag nificent music we weep, even though the strains be leaped with exultation, to the echo of I he lowest and swoti'M melody the cyps brim up with a grief thai i-eems always present. Shall this ever be? It is civen for the sense to realize tho presence of bemty, and as God is impressed in all beautiful things we realize tho presence of Hiiu. But it is not given for the mortal sense to compass the perfection of that beauty, else were we admitted to mortal knowledge, but the presence "which is evtr with, C3, tl'sidnees longing, sorrow, is tho feeling cf tho want of that immortal reafaation, and we shall go down to the grave with tho want unanswered.But there is a plafe where beauty is not linked with s.vlncr", where the Savior not covered with thorns, in the presence of the source of Beauty. There sorrow is not immortal, it has not a being. Nine Follies. To-think that the more a man cats thn fatter and stronger he will become. io believe that the more hours child strtdy at school the faster they will learn. io imagine that every hour taken from ep is an hour gained. To act on the nriDinnnf.n f. .r. ,, . I - (-won nun, ult? smallest room in tho house is large enough sleep ir. To argue whatever remedy causes on ic el immediately better, is 'good for' the stein, without regard to more ulterior effects. To commit an act which is felt in itself be prejudicial, hopiug that somehow or !icr it may be done iu your case with im punity. To advise another to take a remedy hich you have not tried, or without ma-iug special inquiry whether all the con-itions are alike. To eat without an appetite, or continue to cat after it has been satii-fied, merely to ;ratify the taste. To cat a hearty supper for the pleasure experienced during the brief timo it is passing down the tbrout, at the expense of whole night of disturbed sleep, and a weary waking in the morning. Farmer Boys- In the wide world there are no more im- poratant thing than farmers' boys. They are not as important as they will be. At present they are of little consequence too otten. JJut farmers boys always have been, and wo presume always will be, the materia! out ol which the noblest men are made. They have health ami strength; they have bone and muscle; they have licart and will; they have ambitiou and en durance, and these are the materials that make iiicb. Not buckram aud broadcloth and patent leather, and beaver fur, and kid gloves aud watch seals, are the materi als of which men aro made. It is not fat and flesh, and swagger and self conceit; nor yet smartness, nor flippancy, nor frip pery, nor fatness. Thcso make fools; not men; not men such as the world wants not such as it will honor and bless. Not long hair, nor much beard, nor a cane, nor a pipe, nor a cigar, nor a quid of tobacco, nor an oath, nor a glass of beer or brandy, nor a dog or gan, nor a pack f cards, nor a novel, nor a vulgar book oflovc and mur der, nor a talo of adventures, that makes a man or has anything to do with making a man. Farmers' bys oujrht to keep clear of all'thcse idle things. They should be employed with noble objects. Thcyshould be men of cleargrit honest intelligent and industrious men Spirit Valley. His Last Words. It has long been observed by medical writers, that death is frequently preceded by insanity. This reminds us nfa case which occurred many years ago in a Philadelphia court, wheroa pretty young widow was in danger of losing two-thirds of her husband's estate; his relations grounded their claim on the alleged insanity of the defunct. It may bo well to premise that the presiding Judge was not only coMvivial, but also gallant. "What were your husband's last words?" inquired the attorney. The pretty young widow blushed, and looking down, replied; "I'd rather not tell." ' But indeed you must, ma'am. Your claim may be decided by it." Still the widow declined to tell. At last a direct appeal from the bench elicited the information- "Ile said kiss me. Polly, and open that other bottle of champagne. We do not know whether it was admiration for the deceased husband or the living wife that inspired the Judge at that instant, but he at once cried, with all the enthusiasm of conviction, f'Sensible' to the last!" aud gave a verdict in her favor at once. FrVle or Birth. Of all the follies and foibles to which frail humanity is subject, that which leads man to pride himself less upon his own merit than tbnt. of his ancestors, is the most contemptible. In the best of families there must be' some who are a disgrace, as well as others who are an honor. A Spanish proverb says, "he that has no fools, knaves nor brgpirs in his family, was got by a flush of lightning." IVu?las Jcrrold mrkes the following admirable remark, io ridicule of this preposterous pride of birth: "It is with the tret cf genealogy as with the oak of the fer?st:: we boat of the timbers it his given to a "ta'e vessel, but wt "r.irely talk of" the thrrc-le-ged stools, the broomsticks' Slid toliac s'oppcrs made from the chips ami cud?.' is

Ill IPmi mm gifiWtom VTOL IX. MOUNT VERNON, OHIO THURSDAY, JANUARY 1 1863. NO 9 THE MOUNT VERNON REPUBLICAN. T E 11 M S : Tor one year (invariably in advance)82,00 For tix months, 1,00 TKRMfl OF ADVKHTIS1NO. ( )ne square, 3 weeks, 1 ,00 One square, 3 months, 3,00 ( )ue square, (3 months, 4,50 )ne square, 1 year, 0,00 '.)ne siiare (changeable monthly) 10,00 unainzeabie week v. j.i.uu Two squares, 8 weeks, Two squares, 6 weeks, Two square!), 3 months, Two squares, li months, Two squares, 1 year, Three squares, is weeks, Three squares, G weeks, Three squares, 3 months, Three squares, 6 months, ' 1,75 3,25 5,25 0,75 8,00 2.50 4,50 0,00 8.00 10.00 1 hrcc squares, 1 year, One-fourth column, chan. nuarterly, 15,00 Ono-third " " " 22,00 One-half " " . " 28,00 Ono column, changeable quarterly, 50,00 All local notices of advertisements, or calling attention to any enterprise intended to benefit individuals or corporations, will Ijc charged at the rate often cents per line. CARRIER'S ADDRESS. TO THE PATRONS OF THE REPUBLICAN. Mt. Vernon, O., January 1st, 1863. Kind fi lends and patrons list I pray, To what the Carrier Boy may say, Though bleak the wintry winds, and cold, To you my message I'll unfold. Old Sixty-two with frosted beard, Has made his exit duly mourned, While Sixty-three, the infant torn, "We hail upon this New Year morn: Events have crowded thick and fast, Change upon change, has swiftly passed, There's many a home where grief is known, The loved and beautiful have gone. Our country we had thought to free, "Ero this from Southern tyranny, But traitor hirelings held the reins, And thousands of our brave wcro slain. On battle plains the crimson tide, . In streamlots flowed, while.side by side, The friend and foaman mingled there, While din of battle rent the air. Roanoke can tell how Northmen fight, At Donaldson they rose in might, While Pea Ridge victory, too, can tell, How Mcintosh and McCullough fell. True, wo may not have crushed the foe, Still victories with our armies go, They only want truo honest men To lead, then peace shall smile again. Not Fremont with his grasping aims, McClcllan with his tardy plans, Cheering our minds whilo on the rack, With quiet on the Potomac. Tlireo cheers for Buruside chieftain brave, Proudly wo let our ensign wave, For Burnside leads our armies forth, The noble army of the North. With Union men to steer our bark, ' It cannot founder in the dark, Our ship will soon outride tho gale, Not one of all our stars shall pale. Long ero this new-born year expires, Rebellion with its lurid fires Shall ceaso to burn on Southern soil, Our armies soon their plans will spoil. Old Jeff will have to take leg bail, Or that Great Man who mauls tho rail, Will make a necklace fitting tight, Of Northern hemp to set him right. May Wheatland's traitor feel tho smart, He's wrung from many a widow's'heart, His name a curse shall ever be, Te all of our posterity. Knox county looks with honest pride, On the success flio Fourth has made; The daring deeds its men have done, Tho honor they've so nobly won. ; Banning now wears the Colonel's badge, We honor him and froely pledge, Those men who first camo forth and gave, Their lives, their countries right to save. And where are they that gallant band, One year ago we clasped their hand, Of truer, braver, none have heard, Than formed Ohio's Forty-Third. Aye, where are they? ne coward's name, Has dimmed the lustre of their fame, On well fought fields their valor shone, Their motto, "We're a host in one." A tear for Smith, the patriot brave, Xkay'vo borne him to a hero's grave, Not trumpet sounds or thunders deep, Shall wake him from his dreamless sleep. Cod bless the Ninety-Sixth so true, They've buckled on their armor too, Ohio boys aro true as steel, Will fight or die, but never yield. Lincoln bus risen in his strength, In our fair lund, through all its length, The glorious news shall wafted be, The bonds are loose, the slave is free. The Democrats feel mighty well, Yet what its for I cannot tell, We hear them shouting, every man, For glorious great Vallandigham. We list as they hiccoughing say, "We'll show them what's Dcmecracy," We laugh, for surely all must know,; They'll meet a sudden overthrow. How have they gained the power, you ask, Ah, that's the question, still no task To solve; while Union men the rebels smote, Tho Democrats stayed home to vote. They say our bread and butter's gone, Our party to the winds has flown, We'll show them next election day Who'll danco and who the piper pay. Our merchant's f.it and saucy are, With stores well filled with customers, Its do buy this a beauty buy it, Too dear ah no there's cotton in it. Our farmers too, the joke is good, Fancy there's cotton in their wood, In leather too its lately found, In butter surely it abounds. Our ladies, bless them, everywhere, They're toasted for their beauty rare, They dross with taste, and oh, my eyes, Wear bonnets towering to the skies. Patrons and friends accept this lay, For it you but a trifle pay, With my best bow and thanks sincere, I wish you a happy New Year. IDLE HANDS. BY T. 8. ARTHUR. Mr. Thornton came home at his usual mid-day hour, and as he went by the parlor door, he saw his daughter, a young girl of nineteen, lounging on the sofa with a book in her hands. The whirl of hiswifo's sewing machine struck on his cars at the same time. Without pausing at the parlor door he kept on to the room from which came the sound of industry. Mrs. Thornton did not observe the en trance of her husband. She was bending close down over her work, and tho noise of her machine was louder than the footsteps on the floor. Mr. Thornton stood looking at her some moments without speaking. "O dear!" exclaimed the tired woman letting her foot rest on tho treadle, and straightening herself up, "this pain in my side is almost beyond endurance." "Then why do you sit knitting yourself there?" Baid Mr. Thornton. Mr. Thornton's aspect was unusually obcr. "What's tho matter? Why do you look so serious?" asked his wife. "Because I feel serious.' "Has anything gone wrong?" Mrs Thornton's countenance grew slightly troubled. Thiugs had gone wrong in his business more than once, and she had lcarnod to dread the occurrence of disaster. "Things are wrong all the time," was replied in some impatience. "In your business?" Mrs. Thornton spoke a little faintly. "No, nothing especially out of the way there, but all wrong at home." "I don't understand you Harvey. What is wrong at home, pray.' "Wrong for you to sit in pain and cx- haustion over the sewing machine, while an idle daughter lounges over a novel in the parlor. That's what I wished to say." "It isu't Effie's fault. She often asks to help me, but I can't see tho child put down to.household drudgery. Her time will come soon enough. Let her have a little more ease and comfort while she may. "If we said that of our sons," rcpliod Mr. Thornton, "and acted on the word, what efficient men they would make for the world's work! How admirably furnished they would be for life's trials and duties! You are wrong in this all wrong," continued the husband. "And as to ease and comfort as you say, if Eflieis a rightmind-cd girl sho will havo more true enjoyment in tho consciousness that sho is possible to lightening her mother's burdens than it is possible to obtainjfrora the finest novel ever written. Excitement of the imagination is no substitute for that deep peace of mind that ever accompanicsand succeeds the right discharge of daily duties. It is a poor compliment to Effie's moral sense to suppose that she can bo content to sit with idle hands, or to employ them in light frivolities, while her mother is worn down with toil beyond her strength. Hester, this must not be.' "And it shall not bel" said ft quick firm voice. Mr. Thorn ten and his wife started, and turned round to the speaker, who had entered the room unobserved, and had been a listener to nearly all the conversation we have just recorded. "It shall not be father!" And Effie came and stood by Mr. Thornton. Her face was crimson; her eyes flooded with tears, through which light was flashing- her form drawn up erectly; her maimer resolute. "It isn't all my fault," she said as she laid her hand on her fath'er't arm. "I've asked mother a great many times to let me help her, but sho always puts me off, an says that it is easier to do a thing horse than to show another. May be I am littl dull. But every , ouo has to learn, y know. Mother didn t get her hand fairly with that sewing machine for tw or thrco weeks, and I'm certain it wouldn't take me any longer. If she'll only teach me how to use it, I could help her a great deal. And indeed, father, I am willing." "Spoken in the right spirit my daugh ter," said Mr. Thornton approvingly. 'Girls should be usefully employed as well as boys, and in the very things most like ly to be required of them when they be come women, in the responsible position of wives and mothers. Depend upon it Effie, an idle girlhood is not the way to a cheer ful womanhood. Learn and do tho very things that will bo requiredof you in after years, and then you will have an ac. quired facility. Habit and skill will make easy what might come hard and be felt very burdensome.' "And vou would have her abandon all self-improvement," said Mrs. Thornton. 'Give up music, reading, society "There are," replied Mr. Thornton as his wife paused for another word, "some fifteen or sixteen hours in the day in which mind or hands should bo rightly employ ed. Now let us sco how Eflio is spending these long and ever recurring periods of time. The record of a day will help us to go toward the result wo aro now searching for." Effie sat down, and ho drew a chair in front of his wife and daughter. "Take yesterday for instance, said her father', "how was it spent? You rose at seven I think?" "Yes, sir, I came down just as the break fast bell rang." "How was it after breakfast llow was the morning spent?" "I practiced on the piano an hour alter breakfast." "So far so good. What then?" "I read "Tho Cavalier" until eleven o'clock." Mr. Thornton then shook his head and asked, "After eleven, how was the rest of the day spent?" "I dressed myself and went out." "At what time did you go out?" "At twelvo o'clock," "An hour was spent in dressing?" "Yes sir." "Where did you go?" "I called for Helen Boyd and wo took a walk." "And came home just in time for dinner, I think I met you at the door?" "Yes, sir.' "How was it after dinner?" "I slept from threo to five, took a bath and dressed myself. From six until tea-time I sat at the parlor window." "And after tea?" "Read 'The Cavalier' till I went to bed." "And what hour?" "Eleven o'clock." "Now we can make up the account,'' said Mr. Thornton. "You rose at seven and retire at eleven. Sixteen hours. And from your own account of tho day but a sinele hour was spent in anything useful this was at the piano. Now your mother was up at half-past five, and went to bed, from sheer inability to set at her work longer, at half-past nine. Sixteen hours also. How much reading did you do in that time?" And Mr. Thornton looked at his wife. "Reading! Don't talk to me of reading I'vo no time to read." Mrs. Thornton answered a little imp;v- tlontlv. Tho contrast of her daughter's j. idle with her own lifeof exhausting toil did n ot affect her very pleasantly. "And yet, said Mr. Thorton, "you wcro vorv fond of reading, and I can remember when not a day passed without an hour or two of reading. Did you not lie down alter dinner?" "Of course not!" "Nor take a pleasant walk? Nor sit in the parlor with Effie? How about that?" There was no reply. "Now the case is a very plain one," continued Mr. Thornton. "In fact, nothing could be ulainer. You spend from fourteen 1 to sixteen hours daily iu hard work, while Effie. takine yesterday as a sample spenus the same time iu what is little better than idleness. Suppose a new adjustment were to take place, and Effie were to bo usefully 4 , employed in helping you for eight hours of each day, she would still Lavo eigut hours for self-improvemeut and recreation, and you might get back a portion of your health of which those too heavy household duties have robbed you." 'Father," said Ellie, speaking through tears that were falling over her face, "I never saw things before in this light. Why haven't you talked to me before? I have often felt as if I'd like to help mother, but she never gives me anything to do, and if I offer to help her sho says, 'you can't do it' or 'I'd rather do it myself,' Indued it isn't all my fault." "It may not have been in the past Eflio," replied Mr. Thornton, "but it cer tainly will be in the future, unless there is a new arrangement of things. It is false social sentiment that lets daughters become idlers, while mothers, fathers and sons take up the daily burden of work and bear it through all tho busy hours." Mrs. Thornton did not readily come in to tho new order of things proposed by her husband and accepted by Effie. False pride in her daughter, that future lady ideal, and an inclination to do herself rather than to teach another, were all so many impediments. But Effie and her father were both in earnest, and it was not long before the overtasked mother's face began to lose its looks of weariness, and the languid frame to come up to an erector bearing. Sho could find time for the old pleasure in books, now and then, for a healthy walk in tho street, and a call on sonic valued friends. And was Effie the worse for tho change? Did tho burden she was sharing with her mother depress her shoulders and take the lightness from her step? Not so. The langor engendered by idleness, which had begun to show itself, disappeared in a few weeks. The color camo warmer into her cbeeks, her eyesgainod iu brightess. Sho was g"owing in fact more beautiful, for a mind cheerfully conscious of duty was molding every lineament of'hcr countenance into a now expression. Did self-improvement stop? O no! From ouo to two hours wore given to close practice at the piano every day. Her mind becoming vigorous in toue, instead of enervated by idleness, chose a better order of reading than had been indulged in before, and she was growing toward a thoughtful, cultivated, intelligent womanhood. She also found time amid hcrliomc duties for an hour twice a week with a German teacher, and she began also to cultivate a natural taste for drawing. Now that she was employing her hours usefully, it seemed wonderful how much time she found at her disposal for useful work. How cheerful and companionable she grew! Sho did not seem like Eflio Thornton of a few months before. In fact the sphere of tho entire household was changed. As an idler, Effie had been a burden to all the rest, and the weight of that bur den had boon sufficient to depress, through weariness, the spirits of all. But now that she standing up self-sustained, a sharer in the burdens of each, all hearts camo hack to a lighter measure, beating rhyth mically and in conscious enjoyment. Business Rules. The sad reverses of the past fivo years, have been an experience which should bo valuable to all business men. Fortunes which have been years in accumulating, havo suddenly disappeared. Thousands who once thought themselves strong, never to be broken, have been shivered to atoms and are left penniless. They , must now begin again. Many have passed the prime of life. The step is less clastic, their brain less activo, and they will hereafter work with an abiding conciousness that they cannot plan and execute as in days gone by. We never see such late new beginners without real sympathy and a desire to give them an encouraging word and a helping baud. But in this writina we hav e to do. not with tho unfortunate or these who arc reconstructing their temporal affairs, but with the young'and prosperous, aud those who have weathered all storms and are yet sailing smoothly. Most men, when they start in business, make good resolutions. At any rate, they mean to succeed. They expect to avoid the dangers which have ruined others. For a while all goes on well, but the day comes at length when they are swept away and all their brilliant earthly prospects arc gone forever. According to an old maxim, it is never too late to learn. Business men however, do not believe this. Every one thinks that he has perfected himself in knowledge, that he needs no help or advice from any quarter and that if others have failed of success, that is no reason why he should follow in the same track. When man decides to build a house, he adopta a plan and adheres to it to the end. When a navigator attempts a voyage, ho cousults his charts, and governs himself by the experience of others. When one is sick fir his life endangered by com ing ill contact with disease; he seeks advice from a skillful physician. There are certain rules, forms and precedents which govern and influence most men in all mutters except tho conduct of a mercantile business. Here they mean to be orijinnl. They don't want the advice of anybody. Just here we desire to speak. We wish to propose to such men the following rules for their practical consideration. 1st. Do not undertake a business with which you are not perfectly acquainted my sooner than you would attempt, if blind, to survey a city. First thoroughly understand what you propose to do. Serve an appentieesh'p do anything before tak ing a single step involving risk. 2d. Never attempt a business for which you have no taste or tact.' Seek to do that for which you have a natural. faculty and relish. Don't aspire to be a merchant, when you should be 3 farmer, a mechauie, or a day-laborer. 3d. Never connect yourself in a part nership with those in whom you have not perfect confidence with those to whom vou would not be willing, sick or well, at home or abroad, living or dead, to entrust all your business affairs. 4th. Never attempt to do more business than you can safely do on your capital, 5th. Avoid taking tho extraordinary risks of long credit, no matter what profits arc in prospect. 0th. Give no credit whatever to any one who does not possess a good moral character.7th. Supervise, carefu lly, your own bu siness, (not your neighbor's,) and look af ter your clerks and see that they are faith . ful in the performance of all their duties. 7th. Let all those with whom you have dealing or intercourse, understand, distinctly, that you will lend yourself, for the sake of trade, to do any mean thing anything, which your conscience will not approve of. 9th. Novor lend your name by endorsement or otherwise, except under most ex traordinary circumstances, and then let the act be guarded with every possible security. 10th. Never allow yourself, or your partner, to draw a dollar from the concern, to invest in any "outside operation" what, ever. 11th. In forming a co-partnership, insist that a limited, fixed sum only shall bo drawn by each partner, for personal expenses.12th. Under no pretense whatever deal in stocks. Don't believe any ono of tho thousand marvelous tales of a fortuno in that direction. They area trap and a lie. 13th. Keep all your accumulated profits in your business, so long as you owe a dollar. When you have more capital thau you can use, then it will be proper to invest it outside. 14th. Never borrow from banks or other sources, if it can be avoided. If temporary assistance is necessary, seek it from a tried friend or from a sound banking in stitution and then return the loan on the day fixed, with the most rigid punctuality 14th. Have an eye to the condition of tho country, its crops, and tho general prospects for business and look out sharp for the movements of politicians, who, in nine cases out often, care more for re election than for our commercial interest or our national prosperity. There are other and most important matters which should not be forgotten Keep good company. Valuo 'integrity more than money. Live within your means Eschew wine, theaters, and fast, horses. Use no profane language. Never quar. rcl with a partner. Be kind, Considerate, and generous to clerks; and also to your unfortunate debtors. Cultivate the friendship of all. Do your proper share in promoting the public weal. Be a man, b gentleman, and a christian, and you will make sure of an inheritance in this life and of untold riches in the lite which is to come. -Maryland Views Growth of the Emancipation Movement. (Correnpontlenoo oftba Evening Pot.) Baltimore, December 16, 1802. The "Old War-Horse," as ex-Governor Hicks is familiarly styled, has got upon the right track at last. The war has open ed his eyes. In the presence of a num ber of gentlemen he recently declared that, "he was now convinced there never would be any peace for this country until slavery was abolished throughout the lanos and to this end he supported President Lincoln's proclamation and plan of compensated emancipation heart and hand." The declaration was published in the Cambridge (Dorset) Intelligencer, and the ex-Governor has stood up to it like a man. I do not prufess to give the precise words, bat the? convey the sutstance of j the declaration. This definition of his position will en sure his election to Congrcw from the First district, for there is no withstanding his popularity when ou the right fide. I be lieve I have already writeu you that nearly all the principle citizens of Dorset are in favor of emancipation, and the good work is rapidly spreading. The friends of emancipation now consider two districts a certain to return emancipationists llolli- ilay Hicki and Winter Davis and we do not despair of carrying the other three districts in the same cause. TIM-. CONFISCATION ACT. Mr. William Price, the United States District Attorney for Maryland has drawn up, at the request ofthe Attorney-General, a complete form of proceedings under' the Confiscation act, from the inception of the cause down to the final decree, and is prepared to maintain the constitutionality of the act, after a careful examination thereof. There will tio Home warm work, under this act, in our state, for Maryland has :i largo number of property-holders in the rebel army. Chief Justice Taney will hardly hear any of the causes under it, as his health and strength are failing fast. A TEST. Tho conflict at Fredericksburg has re vealed certain men's hearts hereabouts in a strange manner. Hundreds of people professing to be warm Union men are found actually hoping for and wishing Burnside's defeat; and the reason is, their McClellanism! But deeper down than their prejudice in favor of MeClellan is their love for slavery, and this is tho test that has unveiled their secret thoughts; so it is very natural, after all, to find the dom inant passion rising to the top, whether in secessionists or Unionists, where the be loved wrong of slavery is touched. I.ISTEX TO THIS. Here is an extract from a leading article in the Cumberland (Md) Intelligencer, of the 1 1 tli instant, in which the editor disposes effectually of the question, What is to be done with the negroes when emancipated? Will you publish it, toruliove the anxiety of the white negro-haters ofthe North? We do not want to lose our ne groes. All we want is to get tliem lren, and we'll take care ofthe rest. They can livo with us as slave, and they can do so as free: "From the above extract it nppears that the President's policy is to solve the great problem of emancipation in the South, in a manner that we had not supposed. We have been accustomed to connect coloniza tion with emancipation. The policy of some politicians seems to be to get the ne gro out of the country. The experience of every day proves the folly of such a course. The country can't afford to lose the labor of the negroes. If their condition should be changed from slavery to freedom, their masters would not suffer them to depart. The planters of the whole South, like those of Arkansas and Tennessee, would arrange to give them profitable employment. Nature and Providence arc wiser than tho politicians. The self-interest of mankind is stronger than their prejudice The practical needs of the human race are of greater importance than the speculations of political economists. The emancipated blacks will havo to remain where they are and all scheme of forcible colonization will come to naught. The object of the eman cipation policy will havo been attained when the rebels havo been deprived ofthe labor of, and their properly in the slaves Beyond this, all questions pertaining to their future, and our future, must be reg ulated by tho laws of labor and the de mands of commerce. Meanwhile, let the policy which rips out the vitals of the re bcllion be pushed vigorously on." Sorrow is ever present, though tho sem blance be beautiful at times, as the moon smiling amid the darkness. Even in our most joyful moments there is the conscious ness of a shadow upon the soul, and not amid the wild sublimity of the mountains, nor in the quietness of home, is the pros-encc wholly gone. Beauty is linked with and a sister of sadness, as the Savior is linked with the thought of a crown of thorns aud wounds iu his side, and though we live in the sunlight of gladness with the forms of beautiful things upon every side, yet shall gleam from out of every landscape a ehadow, from out of every rose or thorn. In the midst of the most mag nificent music we weep, even though the strains be leaped with exultation, to the echo of I he lowest and swoti'M melody the cyps brim up with a grief thai i-eems always present. Shall this ever be? It is civen for the sense to realize tho presence of bemty, and as God is impressed in all beautiful things we realize tho presence of Hiiu. But it is not given for the mortal sense to compass the perfection of that beauty, else were we admitted to mortal knowledge, but the presence "which is evtr with, C3, tl'sidnees longing, sorrow, is tho feeling cf tho want of that immortal reafaation, and we shall go down to the grave with tho want unanswered.But there is a plafe where beauty is not linked with s.vlncr", where the Savior not covered with thorns, in the presence of the source of Beauty. There sorrow is not immortal, it has not a being. Nine Follies. To-think that the more a man cats thn fatter and stronger he will become. io believe that the more hours child strtdy at school the faster they will learn. io imagine that every hour taken from ep is an hour gained. To act on the nriDinnnf.n f. .r. ,, . I - (-won nun, ult? smallest room in tho house is large enough sleep ir. To argue whatever remedy causes on ic el immediately better, is 'good for' the stein, without regard to more ulterior effects. To commit an act which is felt in itself be prejudicial, hopiug that somehow or !icr it may be done iu your case with im punity. To advise another to take a remedy hich you have not tried, or without ma-iug special inquiry whether all the con-itions are alike. To eat without an appetite, or continue to cat after it has been satii-fied, merely to ;ratify the taste. To cat a hearty supper for the pleasure experienced during the brief timo it is passing down the tbrout, at the expense of whole night of disturbed sleep, and a weary waking in the morning. Farmer Boys- In the wide world there are no more im- poratant thing than farmers' boys. They are not as important as they will be. At present they are of little consequence too otten. JJut farmers boys always have been, and wo presume always will be, the materia! out ol which the noblest men are made. They have health ami strength; they have bone and muscle; they have licart and will; they have ambitiou and en durance, and these are the materials that make iiicb. Not buckram aud broadcloth and patent leather, and beaver fur, and kid gloves aud watch seals, are the materi als of which men aro made. It is not fat and flesh, and swagger and self conceit; nor yet smartness, nor flippancy, nor frip pery, nor fatness. Thcso make fools; not men; not men such as the world wants not such as it will honor and bless. Not long hair, nor much beard, nor a cane, nor a pipe, nor a cigar, nor a quid of tobacco, nor an oath, nor a glass of beer or brandy, nor a dog or gan, nor a pack f cards, nor a novel, nor a vulgar book oflovc and mur der, nor a talo of adventures, that makes a man or has anything to do with making a man. Farmers' bys oujrht to keep clear of all'thcse idle things. They should be employed with noble objects. Thcyshould be men of cleargrit honest intelligent and industrious men Spirit Valley. His Last Words. It has long been observed by medical writers, that death is frequently preceded by insanity. This reminds us nfa case which occurred many years ago in a Philadelphia court, wheroa pretty young widow was in danger of losing two-thirds of her husband's estate; his relations grounded their claim on the alleged insanity of the defunct. It may bo well to premise that the presiding Judge was not only coMvivial, but also gallant. "What were your husband's last words?" inquired the attorney. The pretty young widow blushed, and looking down, replied; "I'd rather not tell." ' But indeed you must, ma'am. Your claim may be decided by it." Still the widow declined to tell. At last a direct appeal from the bench elicited the information- "Ile said kiss me. Polly, and open that other bottle of champagne. We do not know whether it was admiration for the deceased husband or the living wife that inspired the Judge at that instant, but he at once cried, with all the enthusiasm of conviction, f'Sensible' to the last!" aud gave a verdict in her favor at once. FrVle or Birth. Of all the follies and foibles to which frail humanity is subject, that which leads man to pride himself less upon his own merit than tbnt. of his ancestors, is the most contemptible. In the best of families there must be' some who are a disgrace, as well as others who are an honor. A Spanish proverb says, "he that has no fools, knaves nor brgpirs in his family, was got by a flush of lightning." IVu?las Jcrrold mrkes the following admirable remark, io ridicule of this preposterous pride of birth: "It is with the tret cf genealogy as with the oak of the fer?st:: we boat of the timbers it his given to a "ta'e vessel, but wt "r.irely talk of" the thrrc-le-ged stools, the broomsticks' Slid toliac s'oppcrs made from the chips ami cud?.' is